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In this case, which arises under our original jurisdiction, U. S. Const., Art. III, §2, cl. 2; 28 U. S. C. §1251(a), we consider nine exceptions submitted by the parties to two reports filed by the Special Master.

In 1986, Congress granted its consent under the Com­pact Clause, U. S. Const., Art. I, §10, cl. 3, to seven inter­state compacts providing for the creation of regional facili­ties to dispose of low-level radioactive waste. Omnibus Low-Level Radioactive Waste Interstate Compact Consent Act, 99 Stat. 1859. One of those compacts was the South­east Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact (Compact), entered into by Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Id., at 1871–1880. That Com­pact established an “instrument and framework for a cooperative effort” to develop new facilities for the